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Originally Posted by Robbie
Wow.
When it's freezing cold...guys like you always assure us that local weather has NOTHING to do with "global warming".
But when it's something bad that fits your agenda...hurricane, tornado, drought...then suddenly it's: GLOBAL WARMING
Funny how that works isn't it?  |
That's not how it works, but the fact that you connect things in that way, is what is funny. And sad.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Are we also to assume that the biggest drought the U.S. ever saw that created the Dustbowl in the heartland of the U.S. (and also YOUR country of Canada) was also caused by "global warming"? Back in the 1930's?
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The dust storms of the 30's were not a natural disaster. They were caused when farmers in these places dug up the natural prairie grass and replaced it with wheat in the decades before. The wheat could not survive drought like the prairie grass could, so it died, exposing the bare dry dusty earth, which blew into the dust storms.
While all of causes of the California Drought are still to be found, Global Warming is a significant factor. Warming increases the rate of evaporation, increases the need for irrigation and groundwater pumping, and reduces snowpack. Droughts like this can also be self-sustaining, as drier soils lead to higher temperatures. The warmer weather has reduced the amount of snow in the snowpacks, reduced the accumulation of snow, and caused what was there to melt earlier than usual.
Of course California has had other droughts in the past, but this one is pretty severe, and climate change has made the current drought much worse.
How unusual is the 2012–2014 California drought? - Griffin - 2014 - Geophysical Research Letters - Wiley Online Library
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Originally Posted by Robbie
I think you alarmists should all go back to elementary school and learn fucking history.
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I think people should stop dismissing scientists and science because a right-wing talking head on TV is paid by to tell you to do so.